Second “In-Class” Essay for English 110, Section 003
November 4, 2022, 11:00am-11:50am, on-line
Choose two or three specific pages (which do not have to be sequential or contiguous) from Ms. Marvel: No Normal. Choose one of the numbered essay-prompts below, and write a well-argued critical analysis of the pages you choose, based on your own close reading of the comic. Make sure that you include detailed, engaged analysis of the language, images and formal structure of the pages you choose. Make sure that your essay has a critically-focused thesis: what is the main point that you want to make about how you read or interpret the pages you choose?
Your essay must also include the following four elements (not necessarily in this order). Please discuss significant details of visual images. Please examine diction and word-choice. Please analyze the ways in which the creators employ or delimit space. Please comment on character or persona or voice.
Choose one of the following essay prompts:
Discuss the depiction of the body. How and why do bodies matter?
Discuss the representation of the speaking subject. How and why is a sense of self created through text?
Discuss the depiction of gender. How and why is gender delimited and addressed through text?
Discuss the representation of agency. How and why are characters empowered to speak and to act?
Discuss the depiction of reading and writing and telling. How and why does this text reflect on the making of stories?
